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IJNTED STATES ATENT FFICEc JOSEPH S. GoLD, OE ooLUMBUS, oIIo, oSSIoNoB To oLIvEB D. JAoKSON, OE SAME PLAoo.

SPINNING-TOP.

Be it known thob I, JSEP S. GOLD, of GoumbnS, in theeounb of Fronklin ond S[ote of ()hio, hove invonted oerfoin How ond nsefuf ImplovementS in Spioning-TopS; ond I do hereb dec]Hre the foowin to be o fu, Clear, and eXaot deSori tion of the inVention, Snoh as Will enoble otherS Skied in bho aro to vhioh ib peTfoinS bo moke ond uSe ir, referenoe boing o hod to the aooompanying orowingS, Which forn1 prb of thiS S eoifiofion fy invention reIoteS to on in1pTovemenb in topS ond ib oonSiSfS i1 bhe oonbinoion of bhe oop having projeobion eXbending from ifs np 1)or end, and Which iS provided vvibh on open ended Slot With aJ orforoted block havin reoeSS in itS oop ood a tranSverSe slob extend in acroSS the reoeSS ond eorf S ondin to the Slob in the rojeotion on tho to os WHf be Inore fuHy deScribed hereinoffer.

The o)jeof of lny invenfion iS to provide o lneans both fo holding the top and to enabIe the string fo be woond uioky and even] u on its rojeobion.

2 1figure 1 is o vertical side oferation of fhe top, the blook being ooo in tW0. ig. 2 i 1)]on viow of the bIook iI11)osibion upon tho top. fe resenfS an odinr S innin to ,Whioh has fojeofion, B, extondin from its o pef 0 end, ond upon Whiob projeotion the sbring foroouSing the to to revolve, iS Wound. This 1)rojeotion hos an open-ended Slot, 1), oub in io, bhrough Which Slob the end of the String iS pasSed, So aS to hold ib While the top iS turned Ior the ur ose of Windin bhe strin u he book 1) has on opening thTOugh its bottoln just large enou h to oow the rojeobion B to 1)HSS throngh, and iS provided Wh o reoeSS,

, forn1ed in itS fo1), vvhioh reooSS SurroundS bheu or porbion of the proieofion B. This ro- 0 ceSS iS mode Sufoiently large to l'eoeive the cos of the String oS io iS Wound oronnd fhe )rojeobion. (ub in tho top of the blook, ond eXfending direobfy aoroSS the reoesS, is on openended S]of, f, Whioh ooroSponds to bhe Sfof in 5 bhe projeotion B. IU Winding tho Soring npon tho projeotion B, Hfter ib haS been poSSed bhrough tho opening in thebotto[n of the blook ond exbendS up into the reoeSS, aS Shown in Ei 1, one end of the strin is )Ssed bhron h 0 the Slob in bobh the blook and the rojeobion v B, leoving bout hf on inoh of the end projeofing beyond the Side of the blook, to be oougho bold of by the hand whHe holding tho blook. tfer ohe top hoS been turned one or 1ofe tin]eS aronnd thiS ond iS drW floIn the hnd, Lnd the sbrin is ohen Wound ra i(1Iy and eveny npon tho ptojeotion. The ooiIs of the Sfring round ohe 1)rojeofion then supporb the top in posifion reody bo be Spun. By giving o pn or jefk n on the 1)rojecoing ond of the String ib wi ro idly unooiL ond the to drO S oonlthe b0ck while rzt )i(1l re- Volving.

aving thuS deSoribed my infenbion, 6 oIaim Tho oombinotio of the top providod wifh o Sotted )rojeotion u on itS u er end With perforoted, reoeSSed, and Sloffed blook,Whioh iS apped to fhe projeotion, and a String, Subo sbontioll aS Shown a d describeo.

In testimony whereof aix my Signature in )reSenoe of tWo WifneSSeS. 

